[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Replaces: missing in built modules package?

[Frans Pop]

Hi,

I upgraded from 1.4.x to 1.5.0 yesterday and there was a minor problem 
installing the new module package after building it using m-a. dpkg errored 
out because I still had virtualbox-modules-2.6.23-rc5 installed which of 
course contained the same files as virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.23-rc5.

You could consider adding a Replaces, but I decided against filing a BR as 
you may feel virtualbox has not been in the archive long enough to worry 
about it. If you'd like a BR, please let me know.


Another problem was that 1.5.0 failed to load a VM created with 1.4.x. I 
don't have the message anymore, but it was something about a value not 
being present in the Machine xml file (probably the "hostmode" field for 
Uart/Port).

Clearly an upstream problem, but kind of sloppy from them not to ensure 
backwards compatibility. I just deleted the old VM and created a new one, 
which solved the problem.

Cheers,
FJP
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